By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Audiences know Jon Favreau these days as the director of big budget blockbusters like the “Iron Man “ franchise and “Elf,” but he also is a pretty good actor. In “Chef,” arriving on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, he plays a disenchanted master chef who reignites h [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Film Critic Amid the staple-gunning, eye-gouging, neck-drilling action that is “The Equalizer,” lies a little character development; the kind that still allows 59-year-old superstar Denzel Washington to rule the cinema when it comes to everyman heroes. A predicta [...]
****NOTE TO EDITORS: Foul language has been asterisked. You may want to edit accordingly.**** By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Musician/actor Andre Benjamin a.k.a. Andre 3000, returns to the big screen playing legendary guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix in “Jimi: All Is By My Side.” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features TORONTO—Oscar winner Denzel Washington and his “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua collaborate again on their newest action movie “The Equalizer,” based on the TV series that aired in the mid- to late ‘80s. Washington, 59, takes on the role of Robert McCall, [...]
***NOTE TO EDITORS: Kingsley uses the word “damned.” You may want to edit for your publication.*** By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When Sir Ben Kingsley arrived at the studio to record his lines as the villainous Archibald Snatcher for the animated feature “The Boxtrolls [...]